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#224 - Erin Zammett Ruddy - All The Adulting Skills You Were Never Taught

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.74.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Erin Zammett Ruddy is an author.

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual, and yet we're all meant to muddle through it anyway without setting ourselves on fire or blowing up the vacuum cleaner.

Expect to learn how to wake up in the morning, how to never lose your keys, how to properly load a dishwasher, how to sit properly in your chair, how to tidy a room in 10 minutes or less and much more...

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh, hello friends in podcast land. Welcome back.

0:03.9

My guest today is Erin Zimett, ready.

0:06.2

And we're talking about how to adult today.

0:09.6

It's weird, right? You get sort of thrown into life at like 18 or 21 or something.

0:15.1

And you just get popped out the door and it's like, right, good luck.

0:18.4

Remember that you need to be able to iron clothes and make a cheese board

0:22.4

and reply to all your emails and wash the kitchen floor and fold a bed sheet

0:26.7

do like a million other things, but no one ever really teaches you how you just kind of learn by doing.

0:32.5

And today we go through Erin's favorite tips for a bunch of the biggest challenges

0:37.2

that you face in your adult life.

0:39.3

So today, expect to learn how to wake up in the morning, how to never lose your

0:43.9

keys, how to properly load a dishwasher, how to sit upright in your chair,

0:48.3

how to tidy a room in 10 minutes or less and much more.

0:52.5

If any of you decide to do a life change in turnaround because of the stuff that we give you today,

0:59.0

or if you've got any ideas, then send them to me at Chris Will X,

1:03.0

wherever you follow me, I also require massive amounts of help in making it through adult life

1:09.1

without setting myself on fire.

1:10.8

So yeah, I would appreciate that in other news.

1:14.1

This episode of the podcast is brought to you by the protein works.

1:17.6

If I was to write a little book of life skills, the protein works would be in there.

1:21.8

Because their super green powder is keeping me alive.

1:24.8

Don't think I've had COVID yet.

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